[ed note: This wanders, perhaps a bit more than usual. I’d been awake a long time.] I worked 5 legs today. It’s possible that’s why I’m so tired. It’s 10pm in Chicago and 11pm in Colorado Springs. I’m somewhere between the two. I woke up this morning in Roanake at 4am, but it was 2am back home. I try not to think about things like that though—if I do, they seem all that much more tiring. The job can be astoundingly consuming. Thankfully I’m able to sit in the back for this, my 6th flight of the day. I should…
I forgot to mention that pictures from the Red Feather Lakes trip are up in the gallery. I had plenty of opportunity to blog last week, but I’ve been reading Anathem. My first week off reserve in ORD was great. I had to pay for a night in a hotel room because my flight to Sioux Falls went without me. It left several hours late, but I was later because I was stuck in Birmingham, AL. The weather should be better next week. My passport was going to expire on the 27th, so I had to renew it. For strange…
Being back to work, that is. It means sleeping in a bunk bed in a room with 3 other guys, all of whom snore. It means sitting in a crew room with spotty internet, a macbook on my lap and headphones on my ears. People laugh at me for not wearing ear buds. I’ll wear ear buds when someone finds some that I can wear for 12 hours straight and not tire of. It means climbing out of the bunk bed only to come nap in a recliner, in a silly costume. It means waiting around making sure that my…
My Future. It’s official. I start training for the De Havilland Canada Dash 8 on February 9. Training will be another month of ground school, then a couple weeks of sims. Rumour is that Dash 8 sims are in Vancouver. That would be nifty. It’s going to be a lot of studying and refreshing on how to fly a real airplane for me. The Dash isn’t loaded up with computers like the CRJ I’ve been flying. Speaking of which, I’ve also gotten my line award for the CRJ in Chicago. It starts on Jan 11. I’ve put it up on…